i'm actually here mostly for the joy and the excitement of being part of this retrocomputing initiative
How's your assembler doing? I remember you started some years ago.
from one side, it’s a bit in stand-by (i were actually about to start using Pasmo or WLA-DX, but i didn’t yet)
from the other side, i were using assembly parts quite frequently in libraries that i were adding to Boriel’s ZX-Basic Compiler (just like these 2 games i posted here in MSXdev this year) - i was not going too much into tricky z80 stuff, that was mostly on stuff that might make coding a bit more comfortable, like pushing msx2/gamegear/mastersystem/ulaplus palettes with hex colours, pushing pixels at msx2+ screen modes with rgb colours, etc. - at
http://nitrofurano.altervista.org/retrocoding (still very disorganized and incomplete) you might have some idea of what i were trying to do
the only complicated situation about Boriel’s ZX-Basic (that i found) is that it uses ix and stack a lot, specially when you use routines and so on, and this is complicated when you have too little ram available (like PacMan arcade machine, i think it only has 1kb there... :S - after my frustrating attempt, i really can, very humbly, recognize how skilled Jim Bagley is for coding PacManicMinerMan for that machine... )
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and I'm using his Magellan to verify tile transitions and to support generation of maps.
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what is Magellan? please tell us more about!
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so the best way to broaden the asphyctic msx audience is to try to involve other fans from other platforms close to our system.
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yes, people around colecovision, sg1000 and it-99-4a are often curious about "wazzup" in the msx scene! this is quite exciting!
